tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39341451225804591432011-08-01T15:00:35.356-04:00My day to day consists mostly of work in the technology field followed by perusing the Web in search of funny and interesting things. These are the snapshots of my daily conglomerate of thoughts and experiences that I feel I can share.8ubterfug3http://www.blogger.com/profile/08095549853806761576noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934145122580459143.post-70925225013374008182009-12-29T09:48:00.005-05:002009-12-30T15:08:26.525-05:00

I just had to put a plug in for a local company that does good work. There used to be a powder coating business in the area that went down the tubes. A good guy I know decided to start Mountain Top Powder Coating to fill the need in the area. If you are looking for someone that can coat just about anything check out their Web site. They are located in Snow Shoe... Mountain Top Powder Coating

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Word on the street is there is another crack down on Torrent sites. The best one of all, Demonoid, is shut down once again. There's also buzz of Pirate Bay being infiltrated. Be careful everybody. Make sure you use protection...

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I ran into a Microsoft problem today that should not have happened. You would think that moving a server to a new UPS would be a straight forward procedure with no issues. Not this time. I'll give some quick background on the server...It is a Windows Server 2003 SP? 32-bit Domain Controller. It has DNS, DHCP, File Sharing, Print Sharing, etc running on it. I scheduled the down time and shut down

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I was thinking like I always do about random, mostly senseless ideas and decided to write down this thought.I recently got volunteered into a project that involved reverse engineering an IT infrastructure that may be abandoned. We may need to crack the network, domain, etc. and I was working on the domain part. I had been under the impression that a Windows Active Directory domain was uncrackable

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Or "Configure to fuck" as some believe this name means...(Sorry I just think that is too funny). What an interesting virus. Well here's a good idea. Go to this site and check to see if you have it.http://iv.cs.uni-bonn.de/wg/cs/applications/containing-conficker/Then go to this link and update your computer so you don't get it. Just because April Fools is over doesn't mean that it went

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This is really something. This is a demonstration of the capabilities of the CryEngine3 code base used on the Playstation 3. I just thought this was fawesome! The shadows in the jungle are amazing.

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As if gun racks in trucks weren't hillbilly enough, here's something for ya. Just in case your significant other pisses you off in the middle of the night. "I swear to Christ if that bitch snores one more time!"

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As I'm writing this I'm waiting for a .vmdk file to move to another hard drive on my ESXi server so I figured I'd share some quotes with you that make me laugh..."The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. What's

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I got stuck watching the new episode tonight. I just had to see what crap Bill would make up. They upped the ante by traveling with a "skeptic". Bill Birnes would go off on one of his, "UFO's are mining our gold and using it for their spacecraft", BS stories and the skeptic guy would say, "that's a little far fetched don't you think". What a lie.Look at this artifact from around 1,500 years ago

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I was listening to some tunes from the hikeschool days with my girlfriend today and we were talking about this band. My friend Andreé found these guys probably around 1998 when we were children of the KoRn. We would sit around at his house and go ape listening to them. 16 Ounces never made it past their demo album which we found on some underground site. A Google search now returns nothing

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This is quite a handy little app. The idea is, you have a file server somewhere in the house and all your music is neatly organized there. This app installs on the server and you can access a neat music player through a web browser from anywhere.Tonight I was looking for a way to easily share music from my Windows server to my Mac through iTunes. Something I've learned since I got my MacBook is

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I'm a little late but take a look at this. I've always hated Palms. The OS makes my eye's hurt and forces my brain to twist in ways that make me sick. They may be finally getting somewhere with the Pre. Maybe even so far as to finally bring some competition for the iPhone.I really like what I've seen so far. Here's a list of some things that really stand out.Based on Linux (although I can't find

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I'm gunna geek it out today. I want to document some problems I recently encountered in hopes that it can help someone out and save a lot of time and money.SITUATION:An Exchange 2003 environment. Old server hardware being replaced with new on a backend server or could be a single server. You need to move mailboxes to the new server. Users have large mailboxes, over 500MB. You have the new server

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Exchange 2007 cmdlets on Google DocsI had a wonderful evening last night speaking with Indian Microsoft Exchange support for 7 hours. During that time we got to talking and he was asking me how I liked Exchange 2007 so far. I said that it appears to work well once it's set up properly but getting there can sometimes be not so fun. The GUI seems to be somewhat unfinished and some tasks can only be

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There are no words for this video. I can only hope it was staged.

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This is kinda scary. Just look at some videos. This baby version of iRobot, there's a good idea, funded by the European Commission is starting to look almost alive. The best or maybe worst part is that all the platform code and software is open source. RobotCub.org makes their code freely available via their Wiki. They have procured almost $9.5 million to build this thing and they probably still

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I received a very special gift today from my parents and I just had to make a post about it. My mum gave me a graduation ring back in 2001 but I couldn't wear it for very long because it hurt my finger. Completely unknown to me my parents decided to add to it with a white gold ring with an even bigger birth stone and White Sapphire's surrounding it. Not only that but they had it engraved with "To

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I just have to vent about this guy, Bill Birnes from the show UFO Hunters. He annoys me to death. Don't get me wrong. I believe there is a very good chance of intelligent life existing somewhere. There are estimates that say there are billions of Earth-like planets. Even if these estimates are off by 10,000% there is still plenty of chance.But this guy Bill, can take the most easily explainable

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I was just checking out some geek pages on the web and came across some information on Google's beginnings. I will more than likely post a bunch of stuff about Google as the company fascinates me for some reason.Anyway I came across a couple interesting pages. I archived them on my server because who knows how long they will continue to exist. I hope no one minds.The First page is from Sergey

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The week is over and I'm in a pretty good mood. I finally got FTP transfers from Blogger working. I was getting the same problem many others were getting.The problem was that the Blogger server could make the connection but it would issue an MKD command on a directory that already existed. This would then show a permission denied message and the server would then time out without actually copying

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More fun today. Our ISP decided to crap out just after people began complaining of email problems happening since yesterday. Of course I couldn't troubleshoot anything past the Exchange server without Internet access so I got to wait and sweat it out. It turned out to be multiple unrelated non-Exchange issues so no problem there. I got to poop the rest of the day away with wiring and billing

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I've created this blog yet I have nothing to say. I'm kind of working at the moment also. The wonders of being a systems administrator have struck again and our Exchange migration project has to be expedited since the old server is out of drive space.On a side note...Is it proper blog etiquette to capitalize only the first word of a blog entry title? I know grammar isn't...And what is the word

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